Rail chair and brace.



J. WOLF. RAIL CHAIR AND BRAGE.

APPLICATION FILED Amma, 1914.

Patented July 14,1914.

JOHN WOLF, 0F CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL CHAIR AND BRACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1914.

Application filed April 28, 1914. Serial No. 834,979.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN WOLF, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Oarlisle, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail Chairs and Braces, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway tracks and particularly to rail chairs and braces.

An object of this invention is to provide novel means for connecting the meeting ends of rails and for bracing the said rails to prevent their spreading or dislodgment from their anchorage.

A further object of this invention is to provide rail chairs which may be readily anchored to cross ties and furthermore, in the provision of braces having novel means of attachment to the rail and chair, the said braces being connected to a cross tie intermediate its length so that the means for securing the brace to the cross tie may be readily accessible for repairs or renewals.

WVith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a cross sectional view of a track with rail chairs, embodying the invention, applied to the rails thereof; Fig. 2 illustrates a top plan view of one of the rails; and Fig. 3 illustrates a perspective view of the rail chair.

In these drawings 4 denotes the cross tie and 5 the chairs, each of which comprises a housing consisting of a base 6 with side extensions 7 overlying the base flange 8 of the rail 9, the said chair having upwardly extending flanges 10 engaging the sides of the web 11 of the rail and being secured thereto by bolt-s 12, and by the brace 13.

As shown in the drawing, the brace consists of a rod having an aperture 14 intermediate its length for the reception of a bolt 15 or other securing device which extends through the cross tie 4 so that the brace is clamped in place on the cross tie. The ends of the brace extend through the chairs and through the webs of the rail, the said ends being threaded for receiving the nuts 16 and 17, the former of which bears against the inner side of the flange of the chair, and the latter of which bears against the outer side of the flange of the chair, it being the purpose of the inventor that these nuts be so manipulated that they will clamp the flanges of the chair to the web of the rail and serve to retain the chair in place and at the same time constitute a fastening, auxiliary to the bolts 12.

The chair may be secured to the cross tie by the usual spikes 18 and it is the purpose of the inventor to have the meeting ends of the rails abut intermediate the length of the chair and preferably immediately over one of the cross ties, so that a rigid and comparatively unyielding structure results from the assembling of the parts in the manner shown.

By reason of the fact that the brace is secured to the cross tie intermediate its length, it prevents movement of either of the rails and the one brace serves the function of not only retaining the rail, but the cross tie.

I claim In an improvement relating to railway tracks, a chair consisting of base plates and extensions adapted to overlie the base flanges of rails and terminating in flanges adapted to clamp the webs of rails, said flanges having apertures therein for the reception of bolts, rails having their ends abutting each other intermediate the length of the rail chair, a brace having its ends projecting through the flanges of the chairs for the opposite rails and through said rails, means for securing the brace intermediate its length to the cross tie, the ends of the said brace being threaded, and nuts threaded on each end of the brace, one of said nuts engaging the inner side of the chair, and the other of said nuts engaging the outer side of the chair for clamping it into engagement with the web of the rail.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WOLF.

WVit-nesses JASPER ALEXANDER, ALFRED GREEN OOD.

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